{"id":3336,"date":"2003-08-07T01:09:15","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2003-08-07T01:09:15","modified_gmt":"2003-08-07T01:09:15","slug":"the_allure_of_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3336","title":{"rendered":"The Allure of Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/business\/0,1367,59907,00.html\">interesting article on spam<\/a> and why spammers keep doing it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MANCHESTER, New Hampshire &#8212; A security flaw at a website operated by the purveyors of penis-enlargement pills has provided the world with a depressing answer to the question: Who in their right mind would buy something from a spammer? <\/p>\n<p>An order log left exposed at one of Amazing Internet Products&#8217; websites revealed that, over a four-week period, some 6,000 people responded to e-mail ads and placed orders for the company&#8217;s Pinacle herbal supplement. Most customers ordered two bottles of the pills at a price of $50 per bottle. <\/p>\n<p>Do the math and you begin to understand why spammers are willing to put up with the wrath of spam recipients, Internet service providers and federal regulators. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/business\/0,1367,59907,00.html\">Wired News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even for the money, I just can&#8217;t see doing that.  It would just feel too slimy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has an interesting article on spam and why spammers keep doing it. MANCHESTER, New Hampshire &#8212; A security flaw at a website operated by the purveyors of penis-enlargement pills has provided the world with a depressing answer to the question: Who in their right mind would buy something from a spammer? An order log [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}